censorious

Example Sentences

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Maybe the greatest was her own temperament, a gripping and sometimes unnerving test of wills, as she faced down White tennis audiences and censorious authorities.

From Washington Post

DeSantis, on the other hand, has made being a censorious fundamentalist his political identity, especially by enthusiastically backing the "don't say gay" law in Florida and declaring war on Disney for resisting him.

From Salon

The films of Mohammad Rasoulof often tell stories of ordinary Iranians cornered within a censorious government.

From New York Times

Some users Friday argued that Truth Social, which has promoted itself as a free-speech sanctuary to rival what they call Twitter’s censorious “cancel culture,” had worked to squash discussion of the hearing outright.

From Washington Post

Culture warriors, mostly on the right, charge that the platform has become a censorious extension of an identity-politics-obsessed liberal establishment.

From Washington Post